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Sydney V. Coxetter Agriculture Collection, 1872-1947, bulk 1910-1930

 

Summary

Abstract:
The collection contains correspondence, financial records, and legal papers related to the seed, agricultural produce, and livestock businesses of Sydney V. Coxetter, and legal papers pertaining to the real estate holdings of Coxetter and his wife Winnifred (Dennis) Coxetter, and those of George Elliot Dennis and his wife Ida H. Dennis in Lloyd and Tallahassee, Florida.
Extent:
14.18 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Sydney V. Coxetter Agriculture Collection, Special Collections, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-1986-30

Background

Scope and content:

The Coxetter Agriculture collection is composed primarily of correspondence concerning Sydney V. Coxetter's seed, livestock, and real estate businesses in the north Florida area during the early 20th Century. There are financial records documenting these activities, land deeds for George Elliot Dennis and his wife Ida H. Dennis for property in Lloyd and Tallahassee, and other legal records for property transactions. Correspondence and legal records for Coxetter's Everglades Produce Company in West Palm Beach are included. The collection also contains a scrapbook of news clippings, primarily about St. Augustine in the late 19th Century, and a handwritten genealogy, which lists the children of William and Sarah Lane of "Oak Hill," Fairfax County, Virginia.

Biographical / historical:

Sydney V. Coxetter was a Florida entrepreneur who owned seed, agricultural produce, and livestock businesses in West Palm Beach and Lloyd, Florida in the early 20th Century. When he lived in St. Augustine from 1902-1903, Coxetter and two business partners, James Kincaid and A.T. Perry of West Palm Beach, went into the fruit produce business. The enterprise was called the "Everglades Produce Company." Perry eventually withdrew. Because of an economic downturn in South Florida during these years, the business was liquidated in late 1903.

Acquisition information:
The Collection was originally given to the Southern Business History Center at Florida State University. It was subsequently given to the Florida State University Libraries. Acquisition dates cannot be determined.
Processing information:

In 1986, Special Collections staff rehoused the materials in archival folders and boxes and created a temporary box list. Since that time, additional Coxetter materials were identified and processed. Burt Altman, Special Collections staff member, completed processing the collection in June 2005.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

This collection is in an offsite storage location. Please contact lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu with requests for access or for more information.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been transferred to the Florida State University Libraries.

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections and Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

Sydney V. Coxetter Agriculture Collection, Special Collections, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-1986-30

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA